Displaying hints

[iona]

Hi,

I want to display a hint while player is looking at an object. It would work like this:

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+ In 3d studio I give a name ('test') to an object on the level
+ Then I export the scene to *.my3d

.. and in program..
+ I do collision detection (just like in tutorial with triangle picking) 
+ AND somehow I obtain name of object 
       (+ if (name=="test") { ... }) 

I know that my3d format stores information about names from 3dmax.

It's hard to find for me if the CMY3DMeshFileLoader loads this informations, but even if not it should be easy to modify it to do so.

And now, THE QUESTION: is there a not-to-hard to detect that user is looking on a object marked by me ?
Or do I have to add everywhere custom scene node with mesh etc etc ? (i would be happy if i hadn't

Help !
iona

[hybrid]

The only possibility to store sub-mesh structures is by using mesh buffers. And these are unnamed. So I doubt that there's an easy solution for it.

[vitek]

If you make these special things into their own mesh, you could create new scene nodes for each of them. Then you could use the ICollisionManager to see if your node is being looked at.

Travis